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Cinderella was only the second time Disney had made a film based on a classic fairy tale, the first being Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs thirteen years before. The public must have been eager for the kind of entertainment offered by Cinderella. It became Disney's biggest moneymaker to that time, eclipsing even Snow White.

The voices of both Gus and Jag, the mice, and Bruno, the hound, were provided by veteran Disney soundman Jimmy Macdonald. Macdonald achieved the distinctive voices by experimenting with different speed playbacks of his recorded voice. Jimmy was also the official voice of another mouse - Mickey - from 1947 to 1983.

Many scholars think that Cinderella's Glass Slipper is the result of an error in ancient translation. Vair is an old French word for "ermine." Verre, in French, is "glass." The pronunciation is the same, the meaning could hardly be more different. Only versions of Cinderella derived from Perrault contain the slipper made of glass.

In many written versions of the Cinderella tale, including the Brothers Grimm account, one of the stepsisters is so determined to fit the slipper that she cuts off her toes to do so!

Walt Disney established a fascinating method to cut costs in making Cinderella. Rather that allow endless (and expensive) experimentation in story structure and ordinary human movement, Disney ordered much of the film's action to be shot with live actors. This footage was studied for basic movement, and edited together to help structural development.

The song to which Cinderella and Prince Charming fall in love, "So This is Love," is one of six songs composed for Cinderella by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston.

Cinderella's Prince is the only Disney prince to bear the official name of Prince Charming. Snow White's prince is just "The Prince," although when Snow White tells the dwarfs of her dream Prince, she does say "Anyone could see that the Prince was charming." Prince Phillip is the beau of Sleeping Beauty (a.k.a. Princess Aurora, a.k.a. Briar Rose). Ariel (The Little Mermaid) had Prince Eric, Princess Jasmine had Prince Ali (Aladdin in disguise), and Beauty and the Beast, Belle had ? the Prince.

Walt Disney Productions established its own music publishing business in December of 1949, Walt Disney Music Company. The fledgling music publisher's first release was the six-song score for Cinderella.

Cinderella has been reissued to theaters five times since its premiere on February 15, 1950; in 1957, 1965, 1973, 1981 and 1987. It was first released on home video in 1988, and was restored and remastered for its 1995 release to video.

A cat named Lucifer, bearing no resemblance to or relationship with the cat of the same name in Cinderella, had appeared in the 1946 short subject Pluto's Kid Brother.

Since Bambi (1942), Disney had made dozens of training films for the war effort, several anthology films, as well as two features which combined live action stories with animated sequences. But with Cinderella, Disney made his first true animated feature in eight years.

Eleanor Audley, voice of the villainous stepmother, Lady Tremaine, so impressed the Disney animation team that she was asked back to give voice to the malicious Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty (1959).

The "Cinderella" legend, like the legend of "Beauty and the Beast," exists in almost every world culture. The earliest known written version is from ninth century China. The Disney version of Cinderella is based upon Cendrillion, as told by Charles Perrault in Histories ou Contes du temps passe (1697).